Director, HR Business Partnerships & Employee Relations

TEC Equipment, Inc. • Portland, OR

28d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director of HR Business Partnership & Employee Relations owns the strategic and human-judgment side of TEC's people function — partnering with senior leaders to shape the organization, and handling the sensitive, risk-laden situations that protect both employees and the company. Reporting to the EVP of Corporate Services, this role serves as the strategic HR business partner to leaders across the enterprise: advising on organization design, applying compensation plans and structures with managers, and bringing workforce data to bear on people decisions. It also leads employee relations, workplace investigations, and performance management, setting the standard for fair, consistent, and defensible handling of employee matters. The Director co-leads the HR function as a peer to the Director of HR Operations — partnership and people judgment on one side, systems and operations on the other.

Requirements

• Education and/or experience equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business, Management, or a related field.
• 7+ years of progressive HR experience spanning employee relations and strategic HR business partnership, including prior people-management responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience as an HR business partner to senior leaders — organization design, compensation application, and workforce planning.
• Demonstrated experience leading workplace investigations and resolving complex ER matters.
• Strong command of employment law and its application to real situations (Title VII, ADA, FMLA, FLSA, and state equivalents).
• Experience using workforce data and analytics to inform people decisions.
• Experience operating across multiple locations and business units of varying sophistication.
• Strategic HR judgment — connects people decisions to business outcomes.
• Expert judgment in sensitive, ambiguous, and high-stakes people situations.
• Working knowledge of organization design and compensation structures, and how to apply them with managers.
• Deep knowledge of employment law and the ability to translate it into practical, defensible guidance.
• Skilled investigator — impartial, thorough, and able to reach and document sound conclusions.
• Comfortable with workforce data — reads it, questions it, and turns it into recommendations.
• Excellent conflict-management, coaching, and difficult-conversation skills.
• Discretion and confidentiality; earns trust across all levels of the organization.
• Exceptional written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
• Builds effective relationships with internal and external partners; organizationally savvy.

Nice To Haves

• SHRM-SCP / SPHR, or coursework in employment law, is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Strategic HR Business Partner: Organization Design, Compensation Application, Workforce Strategy, Trusted Advisor.
• Lead Employee Relations: ER Case Management, Workplace Investigations, Conflict Resolution.
• Own Performance & Disciplinary Management: Performance Management, Disciplinary & Termination Process, Manager Coaching.
• Advise on Policy, Risk & Compliance: Policy Interpretation & Advising, Situational Compliance & Risk, Accommodations & Protected Leave (Advisory).
• Bring People Analytics to Decisions: Workforce Insight, Evidence for Strategy.
• Strengthen Culture & Engagement: Engagement & Culture, Employee Voice.
• Build and Optimize a Team That Scales: Team Leadership, Development Systems, Budget Ownership.
• Serve as a Collaborative HR Leadership Partner: Shared HR Leadership, Coordinated Team Support.

Benefits

• Choice of two comprehensive medical plan options that include prescription drug coverage
• Choice of two dental plans that cover preventative and diagnostic care, basic and major services, and orthodontia for children
• Vision care, discounted hearing exams, and hearing aids
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company contribution
• Life, accident, and disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Education assistance
• Seven paid holidays, vacation accrual of at least 48 hours per year, and paid sick

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director